Diaspora and Gender
Gender is frequently treated as a binary or “N/A” option in online forms with the purpose of collecting demographic information, analytics being the life blood of many online applications.Freed from this need to collect information, the open social network Diaspora turns Gender in to a text field, freeing us to put whatever we want. Which ...
The Kinect as a means of altering ones visual environment is definitely a novel use for the devic
The Kinect as a means of altering ones visual environment is definitely a novel use for the device, and it’s incredible to see it explored by a talented artist. As computer vision speeds its panoptic advance in to public space, our environment will become filled with visual aids to computer vision techniques, allowing the categorization ...
Knowledge Media Design Professional Development Event
I’m giving a short lil’ talk this Wednesday about rapid prototyping as an Interaction Designer, and what I’ve learned in the past year and a half since graduating with a Political Science specialist degree from the University of Toronto. It’s exciting to be able to share what I’ve been learning with others entering or about to ...
Physical Glitch Architecture
These images (link thanks to by Wes Hodgson) are of pre-fabricated concrete dwellings which, by some error in the process, ended up completely different from what we imagined. As we move closer and closer to a world of rapid fabrication, I can’t help but wonder how our appreciation for flaws and error will continue to ...
Elements of Networked Urbanism
I was fortunate enough to attend the Adam Greenfield lecture on Elements of Networked Urbanism. Broadly speaking, he considered the city and policy from an informational standpoint. Through sensors, cameras, and APIs we’re seeing the city become porous: information flooding in and out, and a wealth of different analytical and perceptual views opened in consequence. ...
I did a good bit of reading this weekend into the idea of creating interfaces which invoke or res
I did a good bit of reading this weekend into the idea of creating interfaces which invoke or respond to emotional cues. One of the things I cam across was the Emotion Markup Language from the HUMAINE group, a fascinating attempt to generate and record meta emotional information within various media types. As valid and ...